NOT IN HEAVEN
Pilot’s Experience After Combat (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. May 6. The story was told in London today by the commander of a Royal Air Force squadron in France of the experience of one of his pilots who, after bringing down a Nazi fighter in a comlbat, found that his own engine was in Haines when he was 25,000 feet above the ground. The young pilot decided to “bail out,” and left the machine but, having had to disconnect his oxygen tube, lost consciousness immediately afterward. When be regained his senses he was falling through a cloud. “I thought I was in Heaven.” he said, ‘‘but when I reached the other side of the cloud I decided. I wasn’t, so I pulled the ripcord of my parachute to prevent me from going elsewhere.”
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 190, 8 May 1940, Page 9
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135NOT IN HEAVEN Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 190, 8 May 1940, Page 9
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